netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/2 net] revert a F-RTO extension due to broken middle-boxes

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Message-Id: <20180228.113841.110358771068519913.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 28 Feb 2018 11:38:41 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ycheng@...gle.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, ncardwell@...gle.com, tm@....bg
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2 net] revert a F-RTO extension due to broken
 middle-boxes

From: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 14:15:00 -0800

> This patch series reverts a (non-standard) TCP F-RTO extension that aimed
> to detect more spurious timeouts. Unfortunately it could result in poor
> performance due to broken middle-boxes that modify TCP packets. E.g.
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg484154.html
> We believe the best and simplest solution is to just revert the change.

Fair enough.

Series applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.